[Global Rising Star Tour Guide Leaderboard, ranking the top 100 scores obtained by new tour guides all over the world during the first time they led a tour group!]
âWhy are there two types of codenames?â Wei Xun asked with great interest, âWhy is there a form of address for the first three in the list, but not one for II-35?â
[The leaderboard is separated into two regions. Tour guides will obtain a form of address if they make a great contribution. This will be based on the Return Leaderboard showing the number of tours theyâve led and the points theyâve achieved]
The Travel Services said: [Only the top 13 tour guides in both regions will have their own titles on the Travel Servicesâ leaderboard]
[Your esteemed self has obtained a Novice Tour Guideâs Bronze Brooch]
Wei Xunâs hand sank and he could feel the cool metallic sensation. It was a bronze butterfly brooch, appearing simple and low-key. There were three recesses on the butterfly wing, which seemed to be inlaid with certain objects.
Wei Xun now knew how the Travel Services ranked the tour guides.
The lowest rank was Bronze and there were three levels within each rank. One star was obtained for every 500 points obtained, and three stars were required to upgrade a level.
When one reached Bronze-rank Third-level Three-stars, one would automatically rise to Silver-rank.
The silver rank was divided into five levels. One star was obtained for every 1000 points, and five stars were required to upgrade a level.
After arriving at Silver-rank Fifth-level Five-stars, one could only advance to the Gold-rank after passing a tour guideâs examination.
Beyond Gold-rank, the higher ranks were Platinum-rank and Diamond-rank. The codenames of tour guides were arranged from top to bottom according to the rank and stars obtained by each tour guide. Other than that, the Travel Services also separated the tour guides into the eastern and western regions.
The eastern region mostly consisted of Asian tour guides, and tour guides were ranked by I, II, III, IV, and V. Only the top three most powerful tour guides were I-ranked.
Below the I-rank, there were 10 elite tour guides and 100 ordinary tour guides in the II-rank, 250 tour guides in the III-rank, and 500 tour guides in the IV-rank. The Travel Services did not tabulate the number of people in the lowest rank, V-rank. However, they were numbered according to their rank and stars obtained.
If two tour guides held the same rank and stars, the Travel Services has its own evaluation criteria, so tourists often called the tour guides by their codenames, such as III-9 and II-49, rather than Silver-ranked Fifth-level Five-stars tour guide and Platinum-rank First-level One-star tour guide.
[Your esteemed self has obtained a total of 9210 points on this tour. Congratulations, your esteemed self has been promoted to Silver-rank Zeroth-level Four-stars, and your esteemed self is short of 290 points to be promoted to Silver-rank First-level!]
[Congratulations on obtaining the codename, III-250!]
After the joyful congratulations of the Travel Services, Wei Xun was stunned. The codenames on the Rising Star Tour Guide Leaderboard changed rapidly, and a large portion of tour guides fell down. The person originally in first place, [I-1 (Fate Jester), Points: 7852] became second, and the person pressing on top of them wasââ
[III-250, Points: 9210]
âWait, no, can everyone see this list?â
Wei Xun had no time to halt this process and watched [III-250] rise to the spotlight.
[Yes, the whole world will bask in your esteemed selfâs glory!]
âHissâââ
Wei Xun sucked in a breath of cold air and murmured, âHeavens, this codename can be changed in the future, right?â
[Yes, the codename on the leaderboard will change in real time to whichever codename your esteemed self is using!]
âIn other words, I have to bear with this codename for at least a month?â
Wei Xun shook his head and sighed. âConspicuous, this is too conspicuous.â
Although Wei Xun said that, it could be seen from the corners of his mouth that he was quite satisfied that the points in his first tour could suppress [I-1]. He liked the excitement and the attention heâd receive.
âBut 250 is really terrible. You didnât purposely give me this number, did you?â
He was just not satisfied with his codename. One should know that the codename associated with a famous person was usually the codename they had used in the beginning. This was the codename that would give others the largest impression. This time, as a novice tour guide, he had directly cleared the Dangerous-level Intoxicating Xiangxi tour and won first place in the Rising Star Tour Guide Leaderboard. This codename would be engraved in many peopleâs minds.
Wei Xun didnât want people to say to him, âWhat, are you III-250, first place in the Rising Star Leaderboard?â
âForget it, what does III-250 have to do with me, Wei Xun?â Wei Xun comforted himself.
He had already figured out his plan. This month, he would act as a tourist to experience more tours. Anyway, it would take a month before he could take on another tour guideâs job of leading a tour. No matter how big the limelight was on III-250, it would fade away with the passage of time. However, it was impossible to say that no one would be sensitive to the codename âIII-250â after a month had passed.
âYouâre done tabulating the rankings and I have a codename now. Can I go out?â
[Tour Guide III-250, as the pioneer and the developer of a 30th parallel north tour, your esteemed selfâs glory will always be recorded in history on the Return Leaderboard!]
âWait, stop. Whatâs the Return Leaderboard? And whatâs with the 30th parallel north tour?â
The âenthusiasticâ prompt of the Travel Servicesâ gave Wei Xun a bad feeling.
Following that, he listened to the Travel Services stressing how important a 30th parallel north tour was and what the Return Leaderboard was. Hearing this, Wei Xunâs scalp almost went numb!
Comparatively speaking, the [Rising Star Tour Guide Leaderboard] was not particularly important. In the end, it had the same status as the [Rising Star Tourist Leaderboard], [Annual Tour Guide Leaderboard], [Annual Tourist Leaderboard], and so on.
In contrast to all the other leaderboards, the Return Leaderboard was the most eye-catching and dazzling list internationally, because it was a leaderboard that could be seen by everyone!
The meaning behind the [Return Leaderboard] was that âonly a tour of the 30th parallel north was the way home.â That was to say, the key to breaking away from the International Thriller Travel Services were the 30th parallel north tours! So far, there were only seven of the most advanced and unsolvable level tours in the world!
With the [Xiangxi Tusi Kingâs Tomb] opened by Wei Xun, there would be seven such tours!
âIf the codename III-250 went up on that leaderboardâââ
Wei Xun was speechless. He felt that the number 250 was just like Wu Laoliuâs maggots who stuck to him. Even if his codename could be upgraded in the future and he even got his own unique title, everyone might still remember this codename, III-250!
âThere are not only tour guides, but also tourists on the Return Leaderboard,â Wei Xun suddenly thought.
[Yes]
âHow do tourists get on this leaderboard? Do they use their titles as pseudonyms on the leaderboard?â
[Yes]
âThen thatâs simple,â Wei Xun said happily. He decided to wear the âTouristâ title and said, âIâm also a tourist. I wonât think about the codename III-250 for now. Follow the rules needed to be followed by tourists to put my title on the leaderboard.â
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âIâmââsoââboredâââ
Mao Xiaole stood by the Rising Star Tour Guide Leaderboard in the virtual hall and yawned sleepily. The little paper figure on his shoulder also yawned.
âIt hasnât changed at all.â
After Mao Xiaole had changed his clothes, he didnât attract the attention of anyone in the virtual hall since he appeared just like the other tourists and tour guides in the virtual hall. He folded a total of four paper people: one to stare at the [Return Leaderboard], one to stare at the [Rising Star Tour Guide Leaderboard], one to stare at the [Rising Star Tourist Leaderboard], and the last squatted on his shoulder and guarded the entrance of the virtual hall with Mao Xiaole.
âThe captain should have just entrusted this task to the people of Sunset tour party.â
Mao Xiaole would never have bothered to do such a thing if it hadnât been the captainâs order. If it wasnât for the captainâs order, he would have long since gone somewhere to laze around.
Only Three Waters, Sun and Moonâs chapter update could make him feel better.
âWhy hasnât my wifey replied to me?â
Mao Xiaole sent another sticker, âlittle Taoist peeping,â but the previously enthusiastic Three Waters, Sun and Moon was like a scum man who threw Mao Xiaole away after using him, and there was no reply at all.
In the past, Mao Xiaole would just read through his novels a few more times, but nowââ
âThree Waters couldnât have been taken away by the Travel Services, right?â Mao Xiaole couldnât help thinking. His cheeks were red with excitement as he thought, âWith his strength, he would definitely be on the Rising Star Tourist Leaderboard!â
Even Three Waters, Sun, and Moonâs dropped novel could keep Mao Xiaole hooked for five years. Therefore, Mao Xiaole felt that the initial title obtained by Three Waters, Sun, and Moon would by no means be ordinary!
This was the ultimate reason why Mao Xiaole was motivated to station himself by the door of the virtual hall.
âWhat could it be? Pen Fairy? The Magic Brush? Or a title holding spiritual or seductive power?â
Mao Xiaoleâs imagination kept him in a strangely good mood. âMaybe his initial title will be a purple title! Ha, in this way, the captain will have no reason not to let Three Waters join the team!â
âHey, I can âprotectâ Three Waters in the future when he is trying to type out his chapter. If he is ill, Iâll treat his illness. Iâll make sure he can feel at ease.â
Mao Xiaole giggled like a pervert, but people like him were not special in todayâs virtual hall. At the moment, the virtual hall was filled with a dark and restless atmosphere. Except for âTourist Dayâ and when one first entered the virtual hall, a certain number of points would be deducted every time you entered the virtual hall. Usually, there were not many people in the hall.
However, todayâs virtual hall was overcrowded, just like the railway station during Lunar New Year. The area in front of the [Return Leaderboard] was especially crowded with people. At first glance, it looked like a sea of black was crowding the leaderboard.
Obviously, the highest position on the Return Leaderboard could be seen by everyone in all directions in the virtual hall but everyone tried to push forward so that they could get in front, as if they could be the first to see that the â???â had changed into another title.
However, the area to the north of the virtual hall was extremely quiet. Tourists seemed to be deliberately avoiding that place, and any excitement and noise had nothing to do with that area.
This was because a crowd of people wearing robes and covering their faces stood there. Most of the robes were dark, including dark green, dark blue, dark purple, black, etc.. Their faces were also covered by hoods or masks, and the sight looked like a scene from a large-scale Death Eaters rally.
âUgh, tour guides.â
Mao Xiaole narrowed his eyes, inexplicably commenting. He rubbed his fingers together carelessly, and a yellow talisman appeared between the index and middle fingers of his right hand.
As long as this talisman was thrown, more than half of the tour guides over there would become disabled. Mao Xiaoleâs eyes glittered with a malicious and bloody light, but he didnât do it in the end.
The reason why the tour guides in the north of the virtual hall were quiet was not because they were well-mannered. In Mao Xiaoleâs heart, even stones in a pit were more well-mannered than most evil tour guides.
The reason why they quietly stood here was because of the orange figure standing before the [Return Leaderboard]
Wearing a long dark orange cloak, he stood there quietly. The warm color was like a beam of light illuminating the darkness, but it was incompatible with the dark-colored tour guide group.
He seemed to feel Mao Xiaoleâs gaze, and the other party turned his head. He covered his face with a red and gold dragon mask.
Mao Xiaole lazily lifted his lips as a greeting. He swept his glance around and his gaze fell on the other partyâs dark orange cloak. He didnât speak, and he just mouthed his words, âDream Chaser, the color of your cloak has gotten darker.â
The other party didnât answer, but just nodded politely. Then, he turned around and quietly looked at the [Return Leaderboard], as if he was waiting for something. Mao Xiaole made a âtchâ sound in boredom, and kept the talisman between his fingers at the same time. He absently looked at the leaderboard through the paper manâs line of sight.
If that person was really a newcomer, he had 12 hours to think about it. A little more than eight hours had passed. Mao Xiaole had been waiting for several hours and was already tired. He estimated that the other person would wait until the very last minuteââ
He suddenly stood up straight, and while everyone had yet to notice, he approached the [Rising Star Tour Guide Leaderboard] and stared at the leaderboard with his frighteningly black eyes.
Changed, the leaderboard changed! It was not a change to someone in the last few dozen or the first few dozen, but Fate Jester, who had always been at the top of the list. His ranking had fallen one step down!
At this moment, Mao Xiaole was shocked. He felt dizzy for a moment, but this change was like a gust of wind that set off a huge wave. Even though he knew that the points of that personâs first tour would exceed those of Fate Jester while his real strength was way weaker than that of the top tour guides, Mao Xiaole felt a great sense of anxiety in his heart. He felt that the other person was a beast that had just grown out of his infancy, a beast that was cunning and powerful, and would be unmatched in the future when he finally entered the limelight.
He stared at the codename that gradually appeared at the top of the list, and firmly engraved it in his heart like a knife carving the words into his heart. At this moment, no one except him noticed that the top of the [Rising Star Tour Guide Leaderboard] was no longer Fate Jester.
This was because the attention of everyone in the virtual hall had fallen on the [Return Leaderboard]! The man in the orange cloak couldnât help taking a step forward, and the eyes behind the red and gold mask fell onto the last line of the [Return Leaderboard].
At this moment, the sound of a needle dropping in the whole virtual hall could be heard, and it was so silent that it was terrifying. Everyoneâs pupils were slightly enlarged due to the strong whirlwind of emotions they felt, and the shadow of the leaderboard was reflected in their pupils.
The [Return Leaderboard], the most important leaderboard of the International Thriller Travel Services, recorded the tours of the 30th parallel north, the tourâs developer, and the comments of the Travel Services on the developers.
From top to bottom, in the order that the tours were opened, it listed:
[Return Leaderboard]
[[The Pharaohâs Pyramid] Tour Developer: The Returner During Dusk
ââOh, when will you be able to walk to the end, and finally return?]
[[Deadly Sahara] Tour Developer: Dream Chaser
ââDream Chaser will finally meet his end in a beautiful dream]
[[Tower of Babel] Tour Developer: Black Widow
ââThe widow will pass away, alone]
[[Andean Civilizationâs Gate of the Sun] Tour Developer: Fate Jester
ââThose who play with fate will ultimately be played to death by his fate]
[[Lost and Ancient Maya] Tour Developer: Astrologer
ââThe stars say that the day he will be extinguished is arriving]
[[Sinking into Depravity in Atlantis] Tour Developer: The Returner During Dusk
ââ At dusk, deep blue mountains loom remote. A man comes home late in the wind and snow]
Now, on the Return Leaderboard, the title of the seventh person had finally been engraved!
[[The Buried Tusi Kingâs Tomb] Tour Developer: Tourist]
And the Travel Servicesâ comment for himââ
[Tourist will have unlimited possibilities]
The author has something to say:
The Travel Services: Tourist will have unlimited possibilitiesââ
Deciphering method 1: *Shock* The title of a tour guide is actually âTouristâ!
Deciphering method 2: Tourist is a 250.
The tourists: ??? Itâs as if someone is saying that we are an idiot??